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RSA sheds its sales agencies.
Royal & Sun Alliance's Healthcare & Assistance division has shed its 69-strong sales agency division...
Technology Supplement - Wired for profits?
There has been a great deal of talk about e-commerce by insurers, but, as Alex Broad reports, Post Magazine's annual survey shows that there has been a lot less action.
Coface float rises.
French reinsurer Scor has reduced its stake in export credit insurer Coface from 44% to 35%, thereby...
Technology Supplement - Progress and prosper.
A wide range of insurance industry companies reveal how harnessing new technology has helped them to become e-enabled and increased their future business capabilities.
Technology Supplement - Crowd control.
While the world is tuning in to e-commerce, the insurance industry is lagging behind in the online profit stakes. Simon Threadgold explains how insurers can encourage the huge numbers of net users to visit their sites.
Appointment at Royal & Sun Alliance.
Daryl Hine has been taken on by Royal & Sun Alliance as centre manager for the insurer's fourth smal...
Ex-Iron Traders are re-united.
Two ex-Iron Trades big hitters have teamed up again to help provincial intermediaries win more busin...
TIFCO checks online.
Premium finance provider Transamerica Insurance Finance has launched an online premium finance servi...
Technology Supplement - Strategic fix?
Ahead of Post Magazine's e-commerce conference next month, Dr Robert Davies focuses on the new organisational structures and skill sets needed to deliver flexibility within the sector's new competitive landscape.
Risk is off 'b' list.
Marketing, management and e-business solutions company Moffat's Associates has developed bRISK, a th...
Miller Fisher loss blamed on loss adjusting
Miller Fisher Group has recorded a pre-tax loss of £1.5m for the first six months of this year, compa...
Adjuster role threat.
The "biggest threat to the loss adjusting industry is if we fail to evidence what it is we do and in...
Scot Prov and NPI Focus on goal:proposal.
Focus Solutions Group has won contracts with both Scottish Provident and NPI to provide them with it...
Words to the wise.
Peter Clark, president of the Institute of Actuaries, who gave his presidential address on Monday, explained to Anthony Gould why the profession's failure to communicate is damaging to the insurance industry.
CanadaSure for Tester migrants.
Migrant insurance specialist intermediary Dave Tester Expatriate Insurance Services has launched a n...
Wildnet launch.
A new company specialising in the construction, management and marketing of web-based interactive tr...
Reliance on market.
Reliance Group Holdings is in talks with other interested parties, after the sale of its London-base...
Alex Forbes opens the purse strings.
Broker Alexander Forbes is to acquire a 20% stake in health and environment risk manager National Br...
Sampo gets some pension polish.
Finnish insurer, Sampo Insurance, has acquired the Polish pensions and life insurance operations of ...
Brennan joins IRM.
Carlyle Insurance Brokers has strengthened its position as a risk management service provider, with ...
Unionamerica sale uncertainty.
The future of two Lloyd's syndicates looks uncertain, following St Paul's decision to close Unioname...
Fortis trades places.
Fortis Insurance has launched a new self-employed liability product for brokers, Fortis Semploy. Cov...
What the Papers Say.
THE EXPRESS UK Athletics has infuriated the World Anti-Doping Agency by not having the power to c...
Appointment at Weather Direct.
Outdoor events insurance expert Steve Warner has joined the recently-launched Weather Direct Insuran...